I'm surprised he was even able to lift the microphone with his bum shoulders. How many paychecks did that guy steal from the Falcons?

Of anybody in the SEC, UGA seems to be getting the least amount of respect from UT -- and that is natural, because they stomped us last year and the year before. That creates an obvious bias that clouds the perception of those fans. Similarly, you won't see as many doubters in the Auburn or Florida ranks, because the Dawgs took care of business vs. them. Gotta prove it on the field anyway...

UGA didn't play uf after they played auburn. Some of stafford's biggest plays came in the clutch. The only game uga wasn't more tough than the opposition was the ut game. UGA doesn't have any receivers? Yeah i guess he missed this year's recruiting class and MoMass. Moreno is just good? Is he paid for his opinion?

First off, if we win one game and one game only this season it will be against UT. That can be taken to the bank and deposited in full.

Good Lord, talking about selling Moreno short last season. The kid is so much more than a "good" RB. He's in the hunt for the Heisman and I think even at this point in the game he can and should be considered and ELITE back in D1 football.

The comments concerning Stafford are confusing at best. While his numbers last season weren't overpowering, I think he did a fine job of minimizing his mistakes and his confidence level under center improved as the OL and the receiver corp matured over the course of the season.

Finally, was that guy honestly serious about Richt's job being on the line? That is quite possibly the most absurd opinion I have heard this entire year and that is saying A LOT. CMR is not going anywhere and the entire Bulldog nation knows that. Hell, even the interns at the AJC probably know that. Why the hell doesn't this guy?

This is merely more fuel for the fire I suppose...I will further hobnail's post by saying I can wait for this season to commence. If, and this is a big if, the Dawgs can live up to these expectations placed before them; they are going to witness the collective insertion of many feet in many mouths.

Well...IMO...he hit the nail on the head about our WRs. It's a legit concern. Now he was pretty much clueless about the rest of it. From talking about our OL to Stafford....he tried to make us sound like vandy.

OK, I can see how people in the tank for UT might not think so highly of UGA. But someone please tell me where this apparently widely held belief that Stafford is no good “in the clutch” comes from? I’ve seen every down of college football that he’s played (multiple times), and my one-off generalization of his play is just the opposite—that “clutch” moments sharpen his focus. In fact, I’d say that while he’s not got the gaudy numbers, he’s a winner.

He's an imbecile, and I'm not sure there was more than one coherent thought there, if that. So UT, with a new QB, LSU, with a new QB, Auburn, with a new QB and a new offense, and UF, with a defense that couldn't stop anyone last year, look really good, but Georgia, returning 17 starters from the team that finished second in the country, is overrated. Awesome. Go back to the truckstop you call a university Will. Maybe you'll get to move up to fry cook in the next year or two.

I live in a very UT friendly market, and I'd say that Overstreet's comments about sum up the way most of them feel. They think UGA is extremely overated and no doubt expect another blow out win this season. However, he's way off base on the Fulmer love. Most UT people I know still wish Fulmer would just go away.

Fine with me. Nothing would make me happier than for the Vols to make an ass-out-of-you-and-me assumption that UGA is overrated this season, go into Sanford in October expecting to blow out the Dawgs for a third straight year, and end up very surprised.

Overstreet is clearly talking out of his rear end, but I can only hope that the players on UT's team this year share his attitude.

As a broadcasting major, this makes me totally sick. The fact that Will Overstreet gets handed a microphone for some backwoods haggard radio show and gets to sound off like an uneducated hick just gets to me.

When was Stafford terrible in the clutch? In overtime against a Bama team that WAXED UT? Maybe, down 20-17 to Auburn? Was it leading UF 28-24 when we needed a big play? Hmm...

I think this is a good example of how the opinion pendulum swings in the offseason. To wit:

If you win big in a big bowl game, you spend the first few months of the offseason hearing how you're the '85 Bears and the next few months hearing how you'll be the '03 War Chickens.

If you lose big in a big bowl game, it works in reverse, reference Ohio State. The Bucks have been hearing for the past few months how they're the Bills of college football, but, over the summer, you'll see a groundswell of pundits saying there's a reason they keep getting to the big stage, i.e., they really are that good.

Is it just me, or does it seem like every SEC program except ours has these bass ackwards radio shows where Billy and Jimmy John get to sit around with Playskool radio equipment and make "legitimate" commentary about football and other such topics? Is our state that much further ahead in the evolutionary spectrum?

i can understand the questions re garding O-Line but we don't have a toughness problem--they found out midway thru last season who wanted to play and who didn't--haverkamp is gone, Curran stepped up-D-line stepped up-

1) “Stafford wasn’t very good in the clutch.” He had two great last minute drives against Alabama and he drove them down the field against Vandy to win.

2) “UGA has a lot of holes to fill.” We lost 3 starters on offense and 2 on defense. By the magic powers of math, that means we are returning 17 starters.

3) “UGA always has a chance in Jacksonville b/c Florida ALWAYS has a tough road game before the UGA game.” The Dawgs are the ones that have played a tough road game while Florida had a bye week for the previous 10 years. Last year was our first open week before Florida in more than a decade.

I also love his final point the people will be calling for Mark Richt’s head after this season just like Tennessee fans do with Fulmer. Averaging 10 wins a season, pulling in one top 5 recruiting class after another, and being one of the most respected men of character in all of college football just won’t cut it anymore. Overstreet is an overblown idiot.

Overstreet is probably right that the win over Hawaii was way the hell over rated. The way the Dawgs finished the season, however, cannot be ignored. We will be a damn good team this year and we might be truly great but that young OL still makes me cautiously optimistic.

Tennessee fans get very emotional about falling behind the Dawgs. They have lived with being #2 for a long time. They were dominated by Bama for quite a while then by Florida after that. The thought of falling to #3 scares them to death.

Overstreet is pretty typical of their fans . . . and for that matter, ALL fans! His team whooped our butts for the past two years and that's all he needs to sleep well at night. I am just grateful as hell that he gave us some inspirational material.

I'd love to see us drop half-a-hundred or more on the Vols.They won two, but Willie's arch-nemesis David Cutcliffe is long gone. Fulmer+Cutcliffe vs. UGA=bad results for UGA.Fulmer-Cutcliffe vs. UGA=bad results for UT

PWD, where the hell have you been? Everybody in Athens knows he was just sent home after finals in the spring to get his attitude readjusted (per CRG). He's back and all is fine. Good God man, just say it and quit fueling the fire. Hell even Orson knew about it.

As Clubber Lang said: "My prediction? PAIN!" Wait just one minute, Wilbur. . .we play UT after our first off week?

I think we will black out Sanford and hang 50 on that team and avenge the last two year's worth of painful memories.

Not coincidentally, early October is the same time of the year that the Orcas of the Patagonian Peninsula feed on the helpless Southern elephant seal population. UT's head Southern elephant seal, Phat Phulmer, will wish he were anywhere but Sanford that day. Crozet Islands, Argentina anyone? Lay the points, because, it is going to be a feeding frenzy for the Dawgs.

Who is the vols' quarterback this up-coming season who is going to break the string of this season now 7 years in a row that Coach Richt has been better ranked than Phillip Fulmer in the Final AP Polls ?

For a guy who played a grand total of 6 NFL games with a total of 9 tackles, he sure has a big mouth.

this is the case of someone making a comment about a team when they only saw us play one game all year and that was against Tennessee. If you only saw us once last year that would be my assumption. His comments were hilarious....some good ones were...Florida had just played Auburn right before us (yeah, three weeks before...they played Kentucky at home the week before us); calling for CMRs head made me laugh out loud....yeah we would call for his head after averaging more than 10 wins a year...the holes to fill comment was ludicrous as well. I think there was some definite Georgia hating going on there - he couldnt wrap his mind around the fact that Tennessee was a program on the decline....when was the last time Tennessee won the SEC? I guess CMR has had some good years...but Fulmer hasnt had any SEC titles since CMR showed up...BTW CMR has 72 victories since he showed up compared to Phils 63 victories since the beginning of the 2001 season. I guess our guy has had a few better seasons..

correction...KY game for FL was on the road....one more thing...under CMR since 2001 GA has finished ranked in the top 10 a total of 5 times ( 5 out of 7 yrs) and Tennessee has ended up ranked in the top 10 just once and that was in 2001. Yeah, you wouldnt trade places with us....LOL